Dump Internet Explorer until Microsoft issues patch, security experts warn

By Ian Paul September 18, 2012 http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010031/dump-internet-explorer-until-microsoft-issues-patch-security-experts-warn.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

If you use Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 or 9 as your default browser on a Windows PC, security experts are advising you to use a different Web browser until Microsoft patches a critical vulnerability in IE. Microsoft on Monday confirmed that hackers were actively exploiting an IE vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take over your PC. The exploit does not affect users running IE10 on the Windows 8 Release Preview.

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The exploit was made public on security firm Rapid7's Metasploit Project and first discovered in the wild by security researcher Eric Romang. Metasploit is advising users to dump IE until Microsoft issues a security update. The new IE security flaw was developed by the same group that created the recent Java zero day flaw, according to Metasploit.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer makes up about 48.75 percent of active Web browsers worldwide, according to Net Market Share…http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010031/dump-internet-explorer-until-microsoft-issues-patch-security-experts-warn.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

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Too Late Windows 7

"Too Late, Windows 7" - OneRepublic feat. Timbaland - "Apologize" Parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3h6kOLYGtI



20100119 Too Late Windows 7

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Windows 7 and Burger King

I found this ad for Windows 7 and Burger King on Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff here: http://twitpic.com/mlizq

I’m not sure I have the nerve to try Window 7 anytime soon. Fortunately I did not make the mistake many of my friends made by “down – err - upgrading” to Vista. I’m aware of a number of horror stories involving downtime and challenges in which Microsoft wanted writers to really be full-time Microsoft software technicians…

Then again, there is the persistent problem of Microsoft’s lack of any sort of meaningful customer service support – or at least that was my experience a number of years ago.

I laughed at this picture when I received it a number of years ago. Candidly, I would not care if customer support was located on the planet Mars, as long as it was helpful – and all too often it was not.

These days when I buy a product or engage a service, one of the determining factors in my decision to buy is how the question, “What is customer service like?” is answered.

Often when customer service is located overseas it is not really customer service but a Potemkin approach so that the company which sold the product can say that it provides customer service. All-too-often, the customer service employees located overseas are not provided with the “tools” or the training to provide real customer service.

I wonder if I am the only person in the world to have noticed that Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, made his fortune with a boorish and predacious company that sold a product that did not/does not work well – or performed poorly, was overpriced and had little, if no customer support? I’m just asking.

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Removing Internet Explorer 8 and reinstalling IE7

Removing Internet Explorer 8 and reinstalling IE7

January 12, 2009

I spent most of the morning and well into the afternoon on various technical technology issues that have made my life miserable in the last several days; however, the biggest headache that I solved was removing Internet Explorer 8 from my computer and reinstalling IE7.

After a month of misery - I continue to wonder what was I thinking when I upgraded to IE8?

I am primarily a Mozilla Firefox user. I can usually avoid Internet Explorer for the vast majority of my work, however, there are still a few functions that are much more easily accomplished on Internet Explorer.

About a month ago, I upgraded to IE8 in the hope that several of the klunky operating issues had been resolved. Well, they have been resolved all right. They were made worse.

It was yet another less than desirable experience with Microsoft.

If Microsoft made televisions, we would all still be listening to the radio.

20090112 Removing Internet Explorer 8 and reinstalling IE7

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